What Scared You?
 

Disney's Sleeping Beauty came out when I was a child. Maleficent scared the holy crap out of me, far worse than the Wicked Witch of Oz, the witch in Snow White, or anything on this earth, and my parents had to keep pointing out that the prince killed her in the end. It's still a running family joke.

Now she has returned.:( She's featured in Disney's Kingdom Keepers books and online games and on all these pins and I just now read that Angelina Jolie is starring as Maleficent in a new Disney movie about the green witch's early life. I thought she was dead. :(

What scared you when you were a child? Or still does?

Wrote this in a different thread a couple years back

The Riki Tiki Tavi TV movie scared me to death when I was a kid.

"Very few mongooses, however old and wise, care to follow a cobra into its hole. You never know when the hole may open out and give the cobra room to strike"

I had the same problem with the Watership Down movie. My kids don't get to watch that until they're at least 12.

"Can you run? I think not."

Movies: The Rescuers, the animated Robin Hood, Fox and the Hound, Bambi, and the fat guy who sang that "Mine" song from Pocahontas. I don't know what it is but some of the older Disney movies that were animal-only just creeped me out. Maleficent scared me too, Carnation.

Also, public toilets and flushing toilets in general.

The lane lines on the bottom of the pool creeped me out. I always thought they were going to turn into Jaws.

Did I mention that I was extremely nearsighted from an early age?

Dumbo's pink elephants on parade (scene where Dumbo trips on acid) scared me when I was a little kid.

This scene from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure would scare the crap out of me too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Pdlxd_rro

Mine were the grates of the filter - there had to be sharks down there, hence the iron cage bars.

So glad I wasn't the only one!!

When I was 8, we had a book in our "free reading" bookshelf at school that had a picture of (this is how I remember it) an ogre robbing a grave. I don't know why but it scared the crap out of me, and I remember having a dream about it. After that, and ever since then, I have to have the curtains completely closed when I sleep - if they don't overlap in the middle and there's a sliver of light coming through, I'm afraid that ogre from the book will be able to come into my room and get me. This has gotten better since I have a nice big cat who sleeps on my bed or somewhere in my room and who will undoubtedly protect me. :)

The other scary dream I used to have (when I was 9-10) was that I was trapped in a car that was going backwards down the hill on the main road by our house. I'm guessing that meant I felt like I had no control in my life. I sucked in my breath for a long time when we went up that hill.

Maleficient scared me when I was youn, but I now think she is AWESOME.

One of the original "Wizard of Oz" books featured creatures with pumpkin heads who threw their heads at Dorothy -scary, scary picture haunted me.

Oh yeah. Those things were full of evil.

Ditto! I would immediately turn the TV off when it came on.

Also, I used to have 2 recurring dreams as a kid. In the first one, a giant snowman chased me. In the other one, a trolley car chased me on subway tracks. So, in certain situations, I was afraid of snowmen and train tracks next to raised platforms.

^^ Y'all are losers lol That show did nothing to me

Well, you were like 16 when that show was airing! :P